Cushion for billiard or pool tables.



No. 717,737. PATENTED JANJB, 1903.

' D. W. DELANEY.

CUSHION FOR BILLIARD 0B. P0 ABLBS. APPLICATION rum:- sm r. 11,

H0 MODEL INVENTOR m5 ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL W DELANEY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 717,737,

dated January 6, 1903.

Application filed September 11, 1901. Serial No. 74,987. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL W. DELANEY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and nseful'lmprovements in Gushions for Billiard or Pool Tables, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to cushions for billiard and pool tables; and the object of my invention is to strengthen the angle of the rubber employed in such cushions.

I will describe a cushion embodying my invention and then point out the novel features thereof in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional view of a billiard-table rail having a cushion embodying my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a perspective View, partly in section, of a cushion embodying my invention. Fig. 3 is a face view of a cushion embodying my invention.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the figures.

A represents a rail of the table; 13, the table; C, the wooden backing for the cushion; D, the cushion, and dthe cloth which surrounds the cushion in the usual way. The cushion D is here shown as being substantially triangular in shape, and it is so mounted on the hacking O as to present an angle d to receive the impact of the balls.

01 represents a strip of hard fiber which is placed along a face 61 of the cushion to strengthen the angle. Instead of one strip I may use a plurality of strips. The strip or strips (1 are placed in position at the time of molding the cushion. 7

By hard fiber I mean fiber which is inocuous to the rubber of the cushion in contradistinction to hard vulcanized rubber,"

which latter would cause hardening and deterioration cf the adjacent rubber of the cushion. An example of such a hard fiber is found in Letters Patent to F. Taylor, No. 302,795, granted July 29, 1884. This elastic hard fiber is distinguished, on the one hand, from the rigidity of metal and, on the other hand, from fabrics such as canvas and the like. The fiber, further, is practically a nonconductor of heat, and no carbonizing action and consequent hardening of the adjacent soft rubber of the cushion will take place, nor will the fiber adhere or stick to the rubber. Furthermore, the fiber will not become dry with age, and so lose its elasticity, but will remain in practically unchanged condition for a long period of time. The peculiar character of this fiber is due to the fact that it is subjected to a bath of deliquescent salt subsequent to' the organic change produced in the-vegetable fiber during its manufacture.

I am aware that vulcanized fiber, vulcanite, and also gutta-percha have been used in cushions; but none of these accomplishes the desired stiffening of the cushion while providing, sufficient elasticity without attendant deterioration of the rubber of the cushion.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A cushion of soft vulcanized fiber, having embedded therein a stiffening-strip of elastic' hard vegetable fiber which is practically a non-conductor of heat and which has been subjected to a bath of deliquescent salt subsequent to the organic change produced in the vegetable fiber during its manufacture, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

DANIEL W. DELANEY.

Witnesses:

GEO. E. Gauss, ALFRED H. EVANS. 

